Of relevance:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/...1n1-media.html
Quote:
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Originally Posted by article
Public health officials and journalists have overstated the importance of the swine flu, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health says...
About 200,000 people die in Canada every year from all causes combined, including about 4,000 from seasonal flu.
"By the time all the dust has settled on H1N1, somewhere between 200 and 300 people will have died in this country," [Dr. Richard Schabas] said Thursday during a panel on media coverage of H1N1 on CBC-TV's The National.
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Pretty much what I figured to be the case all along. So I guess to answer the original question this thread posed, no, as of now I will not be getting an H1N1 shot.